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  1. dew1679666265
    He was very good in 03 before the injury. He had one hot month and was already coming back down to earth when he got hurt. He had a .216/.278/.284/.562 line in the 24 games before he got hurt, while having a .328/.348/.593/.941 before that 24 game stretch dropping his OPS from .941 to .839. I had forgotten about the dropoff he was going through. I wonder, had he not gotten hurt, if it was him returning to mediocrity or if he was just slumping?
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    Yep, he's pretty much right at above average as a left fielder.
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    and that is fine... so have him starting at 3rd in the minors. The thing with Fox is that he's very unlikely to be a long term solution anywhere - except as a bat off the bench (or a DH if we deal him to an AL team). So, I think the idea was to call him up and take advantage of his hot bat in pinch hit situations. You're not stunting his growth, because he's not really an answer long term anywhere. And he's not a long term answer anywhere because of his defense.
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    Going by this, it doesnt seem like Lou has much interest in a trade. Apparently, hes waiting for Miles to come back and save the day. How quickly he forgets how horrible Miles was in his week or so on the DL. I don't know that what Lou said negates the possibility of a trade. He's just talking about the players currently on the team. He's not going to want to talk about how we don't have any good options at third and Hendry desperately needs to make a trade. This seems like a pretty standard, generic response.
  5. dew1679666265
    Yeah, if the Marlins shot down an offer that included Sanchez, we probably couldn't hope to come close unless we included Vitters - and that would be awful. As for Durham, I wouldn't have a problem with Scales at second and Fontenot at third until Durham was ready. If he just needs a couple weeks, we can survive until then. But Branyan would probably be the best and most realistic option - if he's available, that is. Sean Marshall is better than Sanchez. I didn't think of Marshall at the time of the post, but that was mainly because I wouldn't give him up for Uggla.
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    He was very good in 03 before the injury.
  7. dew1679666265
    I don't think players get paid while serving suspensions. So he does lose 6 games worth of pay (for whatever that's worth) along with having his start pushed back.
  8. dew1679666265
    For what it's worth, Lee's NTC is pretty much nullified now because he has 10/5 rights. Even without the NTC he could veto a trade because of that.
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    all of our guys? who's sitting...soto and bradley? it's pretty reasonable to give your catcher a game off on a day game after night game. everybody has been wanting to get Hoff more at bats, and Bradley probably needs to be handled carefully. i don't see the big problem. edit: and Theriot. i knew i was forgetting someone. Why not let hoff play today at first since we got a tough righty on the mound and we have to be more lefthanded this year when possible? I would have been fine with that as well. But the team is not being careful with Lee like they are with Bradley. And Bradley is needed the next couple of days against the left-handers. Yeah, with Bradley's fragility I have no problem whatsoever with them sitting him a lot. Especially if the bat replacing him is Hoffpauir.
  10. dew1679666265
    Scales does have a .386 OBP on the season. I'm fine with him high in the order on occasion. And the top six in the order look fine to me. The Fonenot/Hill/Blanco aren't the greatest, but Fontenot's a regular starter.
  11. dew1679666265
    For Atkins and Hart, eh? :pig: throw in Vitters, Jackson, Cashner, Thomas and about 3-5 others, and we could be in business Doubt it. Those 3 others could be Marmol, Soto and Marshall and they may start thinking about it.
  12. dew1679666265
    For Atkins and Hart, eh? :pig:
  13. dew1679666265
    Yeah, if the Marlins shot down an offer that included Sanchez, we probably couldn't hope to come close unless we included Vitters - and that would be awful. As for Durham, I wouldn't have a problem with Scales at second and Fontenot at third until Durham was ready. If he just needs a couple weeks, we can survive until then. But Branyan would probably be the best and most realistic option - if he's available, that is.
  14. dew1679666265
    To be fair, Fox was probably quite nervous in his first ML appearance of the year. He didn't look too bad on the one play he made.
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    Except for third, can anyone think of a better way to upgrade the offense than this route? We're not upgrading at catcher, first, short, center, or right. There's just no way. An upgrade at second that simply replaces Fontenot... well, who is out there? Dan Uggla? Moving Soriano back to second seems to be the only way to open up trading possibilities. 3rd is where we need the most help, and 3rd is where the most available trade targets are. I dont know how handcuffed the ownership situation has Jim, but surely he can do something. Im starting to wish Cuban would just pull a hostile takeover. But what happens to the third baseman we acquire once Rammy comes back? If you acquire a guy like Russell Branyan, you get good production while Aramis is out and then when he returns, Branyan becomes a very good bat off the bench who can play 3B, 1B, RF and LF. If you look more at second, you've got Uggla, or you can sign Ray Durham (preferable, in my opinion). That, however, would spell the end of Fontenot at second (at least for this year) and I don't think Hendry is ready for that just yet.
  16. dew1679666265
    He hasn't been able to improve defensively in 6 years in the minor leagues, so I'm not sure if a winter with the major league club will do much good. As a first baseman, his defense might not be as abysmal as at other spots, but if his problem is catching the ball (which I've heard it is) then that's the #1 thing a first baseman does. If he's dropping routine throws and not making the tough ones, he's really going to have to hit to make up for it.
  17. dew1679666265
    This is a terrific point. I think he'll hit, but how well is still to be determined. If a team is already interested in him, 30 or so MLB PAs may help sell them a little more. He would have to rake, though. And I think a team that really likes his bat might take a chance on him as a DH. I don't think his value will be as high as if he could play defense, but I still think he'd have decent enough value. Teams have, after all, had guys like Frank Thomas and others who were terrible defensively but could still hit at DH. You could also, in theory, plug Fox in at 1st on days you want to give your regular guy time off or put the regular at DH. I don't think his defense is abysmal there.
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    I hadn't thought about it that way, but if he could tear the cover off the ball for those PAs, he may raise his value (as a DH, of course). It would depend on how many runs he was costing us, though.
  19. dew1679666265
    and then letting one the the very best pitchers of all time walk away Hey, wait a second, we didn't let him walk away. We retired his number, it's not like we had him for 2 pretty good years and a few mediocre-to-bad ones. Oh, wait. We had Maddux for one bad season, one fantastic season and four good ones before he left for Atlanta. He then returned for two more average seasons.
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    Going back to being Russell Branyan is a mid-.800s OPS, though. That's pretty good. I think the Mariners will end up trading Branyan, but I'm not sure they'll do it soon. Hopefully Fox will tear the cover off the ball for a while and, perhaps, up his trade value as a DH to an AL team. If he does, the possibility might exist of a Fox/something deal working. I wonder if Hoffpauir might have more trade value. Hes a lefty, he can play a good first base and hes beginning to play an almost respectable right field. Remember hes 29, so hes not exactly our 1st baseman of the future. The fact that he's 29 - and therefore just 4 years younger than Branyan - likely hurts his value considerably to a non-contender like the Mariners. His value, I would think, would be highest in a trade to a contender who is less concerned with age, but needs immediate (and cheap) help at first or in the outfield. Fox being 26 right now helps his value in a Branyan trade, I think, because he's 7 years younger than Branyan and likely just entering his prime. That and with Hoff being able to play defense, I prefer keeping him if at all possible.
  21. dew1679666265
    Branyan is a glorified Rob Deer. Except Branyan is a good bit better. But yeah, they're similar styles.
  22. dew1679666265
    Just playing devil's advocate here, but Beltre's road OPS has been between .802 and .862 from 2005 to 2008 (his Seattle tenure). I don't put a lot of stock into road OPS alone, but coupled with his fantastic defense he might be worth a look. I wouldn't give all that much for him, though. So if they're asking a lot, I'd look elsewhere.
  23. dew1679666265
    Going back to being Russell Branyan is a mid-.800s OPS, though. That's pretty good. I think the Mariners will end up trading Branyan, but I'm not sure they'll do it soon. Hopefully Fox will tear the cover off the ball for a while and, perhaps, up his trade value as a DH to an AL team. If he does, the possibility might exist of a Fox/something deal working.
  24. dew1679666265
    It's not just Hendry, though. Traditional thinking tends to be that balance in a lineup is more important than having the best talent in the lineup. I remember numerous times last year and offseason when ESPN analysts would bemoan the lack of left handed hitting in the Cubs' lineup and that being why they lost to the Dodgers. Hendry is not alone in this thinking. SO considering this right handed hitting line up won 97 games playing mostly against right handed starters, how the [expletive] did they do that? Totally a [expletive] excuse for why they lost to the Dodgers when in reality the same hitters that were hitting against right handed pitcher all year long with great success stunk it up when it mattered The claim I heard was that the good right handers dominated them because they didn't have enough left handed bats. The thinking would then be that the regular season pitching was diluted enough for pitchers to not be able to take advantage of our "weakness." I don't agree with it at all, though.
  25. dew1679666265
    better than braun? =P~ I'm thinking he means defensively better than Braun. Of course, I wouldn't complain if he were better offensively as well. :D
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